chore(shiv): remove obsolete shiv code

we can't provide this functionality because the directives are lazy
loaded when the module loads, which is too late for the shiv to do
anything useful.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/src/Angular.js b/src/Angular.js
index c70373b2..3f9938f1 100644
--- a/src/Angular.js
+++ b/src/Angular.js
@@ -51,22 +51,6 @@ if ('i' !== 'I'.toLowerCase()) {
 
 function fromCharCode(code) {return String.fromCharCode(code);}
 
-/**
- * Creates the element for IE8 and below to allow styling of widgets
- * (http://ejohn.org/blog/html5-shiv/). This hack works only if angular is
- * included synchronously at the top of the document before IE sees any
- * unknown elements. See regression/issue-584.html.
- *
- * @param {string} elementName Name of the widget.
- * @returns {string} Lowercased string.
- */
-function shivForIE(elementName) {
-  elementName = lowercase(elementName);
-  if (msie < 9 && elementName.charAt(0) != '@') { // ignore attr-widgets
-    document.createElement(elementName);
-  }
-  return elementName;
-}
 
 var $boolean          = 'boolean',
     $console          = 'console',